fittingness

He may neither judge the fittingness of society's death sentence nor dictate our actions - even to express his remorse, however heartfelt.

The poem's editors note the fittingness of an image of birth at the beginning of Occitan literature.

First, it violates "decorum," or the fittingness of subject, and, second, it creates humor with an unexpected and improper juxtaposition.

"Such movements, over which we have no control," I said, "are sometimes connected with such things as guilt, and a conviction of the fittingness of certain behaviors.

All of those things are certainly in the neighborhood of the elements of reciprocity (e.g., fittingness, proportionality), but it is challenging to explain the precise connections.

In just war theory, notions of fittingness and proportionality are central, at least as constraints both on the justification of a given war, and the methods used to prosecute it.

Recent studies have emphasized how thoroughly Edwards grounded his life's work on conceptions of beauty, harmony, and ethical fittingness, and how central The Enlightenment was to his mindset.

Nay, what troubles me is more that-I'm afraid that in spite of all of her beauty and grace and obvious fittingness as a unicorn maiden, I-I really don't like her very much."

Reflective people typically practice a highly nuanced version of the norm of reciprocity for social life, in which the qualitative similarity or fittingness of the response appears to be determined by a number of factors.

Discussions of merit, desert, blame, and punishment inevitably involve questions about the fittingness and proportionality of our responses to others, and retributive theories of punishment put the norm of reciprocity at their center.

His Catechism of a Revolutionary is a classic in the tactics of terrorism, and it came with an agreeable click of fittingness to learn recently that this work earned a place on the bookshelves of Stalin.

This differs from utilitarian theories of punishment, which may use fittingness and proportionality as constraints, but whose ultimate commitment is to make punishment serve social goals such as general deterrence, public safety, and the rehabilitation of wrongdoers.

In qualitative research, a member check, also known as informant feedback or respondent validation, is a technique used by researchers to help improve the accuracy, credibility, validity, and transferability (also known as applicability, external validity, or fittingness) of a study.

Perhaps there was a certain fittingness to this music being performed by Leon Botstein, since Mr. Botstein, the American Symphony Orchestra's music director, also blends elements of an enfant terrible and an artistic conservative, not least by championing obscure works from bygone eras.

"When I reached the city I hired men to carry these coffins properly to my house, out of a sense of fittingness, and then I buried them deep beneath the garden, explaining to Akasha and Enkil all the while aloud that their stay in the earth would not be long.